Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, the Eisteddfod's main attraction was the solemn Parliament of the Bards (Gorsedd). Here, in colorful array (musicians in blue robes, poets in white, honorary bards in green), the bards met to honor this year's prizewinning poets with their wild applause and with Wales's most coveted trophies: the traditional silver crown and pulpit chair. Last week the applause rose even higher to honor royalty: pretty, bareheaded Princess Elizabeth, clad in a green Druidic robe...
...help food starving Europe, and, at the same time, insure a minimum supply of bread at home. Unfortunately, bread rationing hits the lower classes harder than the upper, for sandwiches comprise a, large part of the ordinary worker's lunch. Considerable opposition to bread rationing developed, but Parliament supported the Government on this issue, and rationing will continue until the shortage is alleviated...
Salvemini received his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, Italy. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1919 to 1921. After teaching at the University of Messina, the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and other institutions in Italy, he came to America in 1932. Since 1933, he has been the de Bosts lecturer here, sandwiching in lectures at other universities, including Yale University and the University of Chicago. He was naturalized...
Silently, seriously, Austria's Parliament met in its badly bombed white building near what was lately called the Adolf Hitler Platz. Representatives of one of the weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement...
Figl made it clear that he was unimpressed by mighty Russia's note. Parliament recessed to give the delegates a chance to think it over. Within 15 minutes the delegates returned, voted unanimously for Figl's bill...